Lance Armstrong rule alert!
If something seems to be good to be true, it absolutely is.
The fab 5 was an amazing class because something like that had never happened before. And in the 20 years or so after that, it had never happened again. And Webber was also getting paid , so as amazing as the fab 5 was, they were cheating too.
Recruiting the best players every year is not a new phenomenon. Every coach who has ever recruited for a major program has tried to recruit the best players available every year. It just never works out because, all things being equal, playing time is limited when everyone at your position is an All-American. So we need to stop pretending that Cal is trying some new strategy. He's not. 10 years ago, if JB could have recruited the numbers 1,2,3,4, and 5 players in a given class, he would have. So would every other coach in America.
It's so blatantly obvious that something illicit is happening here, that everyone seems to have convinced themselves that nothing illicit could be happening. Lance Armstrong never failed a drug test, but he still spent his entire career cheating. John Calipari has spent his entire career getting caught cheating, and we're somehow supposed to believe that he is the only one who ever figured out the magic formula to make every great high schooler join your program? There is a magic formula, and it was figured out a long time ago. SMU football figured it out, so did UCLA basketball, and even UK basketball had it figured out at different points in it's past.
Calipari has figured out a way to make it extremely difficult to trace, but we can all be absolutely sure that he has figured out something. What he is doing right now just does not happen. And if it ever were to happen in a legal and above board manner, it would not be figured out by the guy who has spent his entire career getting caught cheating.
I'm surprised that someone like Yahoo Sports, or Fox Sports isn't diggin hard into this story (who knows, maybe they are). There is obviously a major story to be found somewhere. Whoever breaks this story, and at some point, someone will, is bound to win journalism awards, and become the sports world equivalent of woodward and bernstein.
Society as a whole should be too cynical at this point to ever accept that this run that Calipari is on is above board. We know better, we've seen it too many times.
Oh well, in the mean time we'll have to listen about how great Calipari is, and how incredible they will very likely be next year. I just wish we could fast forward to the point where we all say everyone had to know something was going on, and we get a good 30 for 30 out of it.
